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nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks
Word is automatically inserting nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks
when I type a colon ( a semi-colon ( a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) What can I do to eliminate this automated function so that when I type a punctuation mark, that is all that Word types in my document? Thank you in advance for your help! |
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Sounds like your language is set to French. This behaviour can be turned off
by unchecking the Autoformat (and AutoFormat As You Type) "Replace Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes" option. But, more likely, you want to set your language to English. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Word is automatically inserting nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks when I type a colon ( a semi-colon ( a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) What can I do to eliminate this automated function so that when I type a punctuation mark, that is all that Word types in my document? Thank you in advance for your help! |
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Danke schön, Tony! Your intuition was right on target -- I do indeed have
the problem when I am working with the French keyboard in Word 2003. (I don't remember having the problem in my old Word 95, though.) Your suggestion has resolved the problem -- partially :-). I unfortunately lose the smart quotes function when I implement your suggestion, however. Background: Actually, I often have to change between keyboard layouts in several languages (most often French or English) and the French-language style requirements (that I follow for my work) do not allow spaces before punctuation, before and after quotation marks, etc. So the automated function in Word 2003 putting spaces before punctuation, and before and after quotation marks, is a real bother. Further question: Is there any way to eliminate the unwanted spacing before punctuation marks, while at the same time keeping the smart quotes feature (rather than straight quotes)? Again, danke, Tony, I really appreciate your help. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Sounds like your language is set to French. This behaviour can be turned off by unchecking the Autoformat (and AutoFormat As You Type) "Replace Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes" option. But, more likely, you want to set your language to English. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Word is automatically inserting nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks when I type a colon ( a semi-colon ( a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) What can I do to eliminate this automated function so that when I type a punctuation mark, that is all that Word types in my document? Thank you in advance for your help! |
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Sorry, but as far as I know (which isn't really very much) it comes with the
spaces and no choice. Best I can think of is, if you don't use hard spaces for anything else, you may be able to do a simple replace all hard space with nothing on your finished document. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Danke schön, Tony! Your intuition was right on target -- I do indeed have the problem when I am working with the French keyboard in Word 2003. (I don't remember having the problem in my old Word 95, though.) Your suggestion has resolved the problem -- partially :-). I unfortunately lose the smart quotes function when I implement your suggestion, however. Background: Actually, I often have to change between keyboard layouts in several languages (most often French or English) and the French-language style requirements (that I follow for my work) do not allow spaces before punctuation, before and after quotation marks, etc. So the automated function in Word 2003 putting spaces before punctuation, and before and after quotation marks, is a real bother. Further question: Is there any way to eliminate the unwanted spacing before punctuation marks, while at the same time keeping the smart quotes feature (rather than straight quotes)? Again, danke, Tony, I really appreciate your help. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Sounds like your language is set to French. This behaviour can be turned off by unchecking the Autoformat (and AutoFormat As You Type) "Replace Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes" option. But, more likely, you want to set your language to English. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Word is automatically inserting nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks when I type a colon ( a semi-colon ( a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) What can I do to eliminate this automated function so that when I type a punctuation mark, that is all that Word types in my document? Thank you in advance for your help! |
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I suppose you are right about there being no choice, Tony (**sigh**). I
don't understand why the folks at Word programmed nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks into their program in such a way that it is beyond the control of the end user. It is too bad; that lack of flexibility is probably a weakness in Word 2003, it would seem. As for doing a simple replace for all the hard spaces in my finished document, your suggestion is confirming, because that is exactly what I have been doing. I had hoped there was an easier, automatic way to accomplish the task, but I suppose there is not. Perhaps someone else has a better solution. Until then, I will just continue doing the replace of the hard spaces as one of my last tasks when working on a document -- **grumble, grumble** :-). Again, thank you, and have a great weekend! "Tony Jollans" wrote: Sorry, but as far as I know (which isn't really very much) it comes with the spaces and no choice. Best I can think of is, if you don't use hard spaces for anything else, you may be able to do a simple replace all hard space with nothing on your finished document. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Danke schön, Tony! Your intuition was right on target -- I do indeed have the problem when I am working with the French keyboard in Word 2003. (I don't remember having the problem in my old Word 95, though.) Your suggestion has resolved the problem -- partially :-). I unfortunately lose the smart quotes function when I implement your suggestion, however. Background: Actually, I often have to change between keyboard layouts in several languages (most often French or English) and the French-language style requirements (that I follow for my work) do not allow spaces before punctuation, before and after quotation marks, etc. So the automated function in Word 2003 putting spaces before punctuation, and before and after quotation marks, is a real bother. Further question: Is there any way to eliminate the unwanted spacing before punctuation marks, while at the same time keeping the smart quotes feature (rather than straight quotes)? Again, danke, Tony, I really appreciate your help. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Sounds like your language is set to French. This behaviour can be turned off by unchecking the Autoformat (and AutoFormat As You Type) "Replace Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes" option. But, more likely, you want to set your language to English. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Word is automatically inserting nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks when I type a colon ( a semi-colon ( a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) What can I do to eliminate this automated function so that when I type a punctuation mark, that is all that Word types in my document? Thank you in advance for your help! |
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Tony Jollans wrote: Sounds like your language is set to French. This behaviour can be turned off by unchecking the Autoformat (and AutoFormat As You Type) "Replace Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes" option. But, more likely, you want to set your language to English. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Word is automatically inserting nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks when I type a colon ( a semi-colon ( a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) What can I do to eliminate this automated function so that when I type a punctuation mark, that is all that Word types in my document? Thank you in advance for your help! This is a potential workaround; perhaps you can modify this to suit: If you make an AutoCorrect entry for "semicolon" (symbol) and replace it with itself then Word will make the substitution, and it won't "appear" to be any different. (I know that seems nonsensical, but read on...) You'll still type ";" and get " ;", *but* you can backspace once, to remove the space, then continue. (You don't have to re-position the cursor, either, just type "semicolon" and "backspace" and your added hard space is removed.) I don't know why it works, but it does. So it's an extra keystroke with each punctuation mark entered that way (as well as AutoCorrect entries for each of those symbols). I wouldn't like it, either, but it is an option. Maybe it's best just to write a macro to search for hard spaces before punctuation marks and run that on DocumentSave or Print, etc. I agree that it makes no sense that Microsoft wouldn't include a setup option somewhere to make it behave as you want it to. |
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I think pressing Ctrl+Z to reverse the AutoFormat would probably be easier.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Blue Hornet" wrote in message oups.com... Tony Jollans wrote: Sounds like your language is set to French. This behaviour can be turned off by unchecking the Autoformat (and AutoFormat As You Type) "Replace Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes" option. But, more likely, you want to set your language to English. -- Enjoy, Tony "Puzzled" wrote in message ... Word is automatically inserting nonbreaking spaces before punctuation marks when I type a colon ( a semi-colon ( a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) What can I do to eliminate this automated function so that when I type a punctuation mark, that is all that Word types in my document? Thank you in advance for your help! This is a potential workaround; perhaps you can modify this to suit: If you make an AutoCorrect entry for "semicolon" (symbol) and replace it with itself then Word will make the substitution, and it won't "appear" to be any different. (I know that seems nonsensical, but read on...) You'll still type ";" and get " ;", *but* you can backspace once, to remove the space, then continue. (You don't have to re-position the cursor, either, just type "semicolon" and "backspace" and your added hard space is removed.) I don't know why it works, but it does. So it's an extra keystroke with each punctuation mark entered that way (as well as AutoCorrect entries for each of those symbols). I wouldn't like it, either, but it is an option. Maybe it's best just to write a macro to search for hard spaces before punctuation marks and run that on DocumentSave or Print, etc. I agree that it makes no sense that Microsoft wouldn't include a setup option somewhere to make it behave as you want it to. |
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